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Full Description
This volume contains a selection of papers presented at the Medieval English Studies Symposium held in Poznań (Poland), in November 2009. The papers cover a wide range of approaches to the issue of the afterlife, heaven and hell in Old and Middle English as well as post-medieval literature.
Contents
Contents: Michael Alexander: The landscape of the afterlife in medieval and post-medieval imagination - Rafał Borysławski: Between ofergyhg and wræclastas: Pride and exile in the speculative afterlife of Christ and Satan - Anna Czarnowus: Muhammad in Hell, or Dante and William Langland on the prophet's afterlife - Sabine Heinz: Afterlife and Celtic concepts of the Otherworld - Dwight Holbrook: The 'after' in medieval afterlife: A vertical or horizontal arrow of time? - Ł Lukasz Hudomiet: Unreal wonderlands - The quest for Paradise in late medieval and Victorian imagination - Barbara Kowalik: Inklings of afterlife: Images of Hell in C.S. Lewis' The great divorce and Charles Williams' Et in sempiternum pereant - Joanna Ludwikowska-Leniec: Access denied: The female «wild zone» in visions of Purgatory by Christina Mirabilis - Jacek Olesiejko: The Anglo-Saxon idea of locus amoenus: The Paradise in the Old English Judgement day II and The Phoenix - Liliana Sikorska: Reading and writing a medievalist text: Adam Thorpe's Hodd. An advertisement in five acts - Andrzej Wicher: Some gender aspects of the motif of penance in selected Middle English romances.



